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Welcome to the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy

The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy is an interdisciplinary research and education initiative at the University of California, Santa Barbara that aims to expand public understanding and discussion of important issues facing working people. In cooperation with the Department of History, the Center administers an undergraduate minor in Labor Studies and a graduate- level Colloquium in Work, Labor and Political Economy. The Center also hosts conferences and workshops that seek to advance an understanding of issues and ideas that contribute to an understanding, past and present, of American capitalism and the working class that sustains it.

     Upcoming Events        

• November 20 / 1 PM / HSSB 4041: MARK HENDRICKSON (UC San Diego, History) “’New Capitalism:’ Rights, Expectations, and Fairness in the New Era Economy.”  Hendrickson’s research focuses on labor, public policy, capitalism and political economy in early twentieth century U.S. History.  He has held fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, Aspen Institute, and the Institute for Labor and Employment Studies. He took his PhD in history at UCSB in 2004.

• January 15 / 1 PM / HSSB 4041: Larry Bartels (Princeton, Political Science) "Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age."

• January 22 / 1 PM / HSSB 4041: Katie Quan (UC Berkeley Labor Center) "Missing Link: China and Global Struggles Against Walmart."

• January 29, 2010 / 1 PM / HSSB 4041: JEFFREY B. PERRY, "The Importance of Hubert Harrison (1883-1927): 'The Voice of Harlem Radicalism' and Intellectual/Activist 'Ahead of His Time.'"  Dr. Jeffrey B. Perry is an independent, working class scholar who  was formally educated at Princeton, Harvard, Rutgers, and Columbia  University. He is a long-time union activist and editor for the National Postal Mail Handlers Union. He is the author of Hubert  Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918. (Columbia  University Press, 2008). He is also literary executor for Theodore  W. Allen and edited Allen's Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (2006).